Gilmore Girl Inspirational Quotes

Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts.

But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine. It’s hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it’s true that whatever you’re after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don’t know it yet.

I guess what I’m saying is, let’s keep lifting each other up. It’s not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities I’ve had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in positions of power. If I’m ever in that position and you ask me, “Who?” I’ll do my best to say, “You” too. But in order to get there, you may have to break down the walls of whatever it is that’s holding you back first. Ignore the doubt—it’s not your friend—and just keep going, keep going, keep going.

I still find that, in general, having a plan is, well, a good plan. But when my carefully laid plan laughed at me, rather than clutch at it too tightly I just made a new one, even if it was one that didn’t immediately make sense. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. So don’t let your plan have the last laugh, but laugh last when your plan laughs, and when your plan has the last laugh, laugh back, laughing!

I don't like Mondays, but unfortunately they come around eventually.”-Lorelai, Partings (Season 6, Episode 22)

Kind words are like honey—sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.” - Proverbs 16:24

It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. It is so disorienting to fret over aged-out foster kids while saving money for a beach vacation. Is it even okay to have fun when there is so much suffering in our communities and churches and world? What does it say about us when we love things like sports, food, travel, and fashion in a world plagued with hunger and human trafficking?

People are particularly stupid today. I can’t talk to any more of them.”-Michel, Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1) This year has been a hard one. People have taken sides on every issue under the sun, armed themselves with opinions and rights and offenses and wrongs, and proceeded to hurl word grenades at each other, one after another, until the air has become so thick with anger and frustration that we can barely see who we’re fighting.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.” - Romans 7:21-25a

Do you find it hard to stay mindful of eternity, of God’s greater plan for you and your life? Take a moment today to realign your eyes to His purpose and priorities, to remember that someday our earthly life will be summed up in a few words on a tombstone, to thank God that through all the everyday business of life He is still fitting it all together in the grandest scheme of all.

The good news about our God is that He is the author of all our changes — the hard and the fun, the sudden and the long-time-coming — and He will work all of it together for our good.

If we believe that, if we trust in God’s constant goodness, then we have to believe that, even when life is hard, we still have much to be thankful for – and I don’t just mean our lack of smallpox-infested blankets. No matter how much challenge and change and chaos we are facing, we worship a God who is always in control and never-changing. Even while He is heartbroken by our pain, He is not moved by chaos or unsettled by situations. He is unshakable. And more than any temporary comfort or blessing we might name in our gratitude, that is the gift we should be thankful for. Knowing that God is still on His throne, no matter how badly our world, our confidence, our faith has been shaken? That’s worth celebrating!

I hope I remember that while we will never agree with everyone all the time, we can give our best effort to getting along. Partly because it feels better to live at peace with others, but also because it shows obedience to and love for God. It shows that we place value on something outside of ourselves when we refuse to be selfish and stubborn, instead choosing flexibility and fellowship.

You just want to hold a grudge.” “Yes. Burns more calories.” “That's not true.” “Yes, it is. How do you think your grandma got those legs of hers? She's not exactly a StairMaster gal.”-Rory and Lorelai, Forgiveness and Stuff (Season 1, Episode 10)